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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This column presents technologies that have applications in commercial areas, possibly creating the products of tomorrow. To learn more about each technology, see the contact information provided for that innovation.
Articles: Motion Control
Any manufacturing facility that uses hydraulics powered by conventional fixed-speed hydraulic power units (HPUs) has engineers and personnel who know all too well how large, noisy,...
Briefs: Medical
A patented self-contained device for isolating deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA), proteins, and cells without using pipettes or centrifuges has been developed at NASA’s...
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Modular robot platforms, automated crane systems, motion smoothing, and more.
Products: Motion Control
High-performance laser trackers, gimbal motors, air-quality sensors, and more.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Many presses continue using inefficient and unreliable hydraulic pumps.
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
Self-healing materials, quick disconnects, and eco-friendly micro-supercapacitors.
Briefs: Energy
This scalable power processing unit (PPU) is for use with low-power Hall effect thrusters.
Briefs: Propulsion
A new catalyst and microchannel reactors improve efficiency and cost of the process.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Battery monitoring, flow meters, torque sensors, and more.
Briefs: Software
The simulations provide insight on the models needed to simulate a full-scale landing event.
Articles: Motion Control
Learn how design engineers are making better gas meters.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will ‘Ocean Batteries’ Catch On?
Our lead story today highlights an innovative energy approach from a Netherlands-based company called Ocean Grazer. Tied to existing wind farms, the team’s “Ocean Battery” pumps water from solid subsea reservoirs into flexible bladders located just above the seabed. When there is a demand for power, the...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface. Jiming Bao, professor of...
Podcasts: Energy
Dr. Frits Bliek and his team at Ocean Grazer are building an "Ocean Battery" that brings hydrodam technology to the sea.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Large machines can breathe in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An electrically driven soft valve paves the way for fully soft robots.
INSIDER: Automotive
Modern agricultural tractors contain so much cutting-edge technology, they rival even the latest spacecraft. But the back end is still old-school, relying largely on fossil fuels....
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Motors, suspension arms, slit couplings, and more.
Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The optically powered machines self-assemble and could be used for nanoscale manipulation of tiny cargo.
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Motion controllers, electric cylinders, cobot brakes, and more.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Learn seven key design considerations for implementing electrohydraulic valves.
Briefs: Materials
The tiny motors mimic how rock climbers navigate inclines.
Briefs: Materials
A folded plastic bladder could store and pump the fuel.
Briefs: Aerospace
This method is a faster way to manufacture combustion chambers and nozzles for aerospace propulsion as well as heat exchangers in oil and gas applications.
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Use a ‘Cold Tube?’
Our August issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a technology that offers an energy-efficient alternative to the air conditioner: The Cold Tube.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These common pneumatic circuits can be used alone or as building blocks in larger pneumatics systems.
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